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Associate Professor Aeron Hurt (BSc(Hons) PhD GradDipMgt) heads the Antiviral Susceptibility Analysis Surveillance Unit and a separate research team at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Melbourne, Australia, where his team focuses on research related to influenza antivirals and avian influenza ecology and evolution. Aeron regularly acts as an external Temporary Advisor to the WHO and has completed a number of short-term consultancies for the Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the WHO, and the Australian Government related to influenza surveillance, epidemiology and laboratory analysis. Aeron completed a PhD in influenza virology at Monash University and holds an honorary Principal Fellow appointment with the University of Melbourne.